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Khrushchev gained power by intentionally lying about Stalin, demonizing the socialist project, and implementing reforms that ultimately undermined the centralized system of the USSR, leading to stagnation and collapse. Deng, on the other hand, refused to do so:
Whether the socialist market economy of the PRC looks like the perfect ideal of socialism in our heads or not, we must recognize that the same failures caused by Kruschev have not come to pass:
Marxism-Leninism/Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory are the core of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, rather than a rejection of Mao and historical nihilism.
Socialism is upheld in the PRC, the large firms and key industries are firmly in the hands of the state, while the CPC maintains strong control of the medium firms.
The centralized system of socialism in the PRC is upheld. Social unity in collective purpose is high, even if there is broad diversity in thought, there is unity in continuing to improve and develop socialism to higher stages.
Rather than stagnating due to clunky liberalization undermining the planned economy, economic growth has stabilized and increased, allowing the PRC to commit to vast infrastructure projects and serve as an alternative to US Hegemony from within the global market.
The market reforms are not without their risks, nor their contradictions, but to be good Marxists we must correctly analyze material reality. The failures of Khrushchev and the successes of Deng's market reforms are both lessons in practice. Dogmatism and book worship are to be opposed.
"Historical nihilism" is a term used by patsocs to attack communist who oppose settler-colonialism and its history in the United States.
Disapproving of mud-slinging towards previous socialist heads of state like Stalin, Mao, Deng, etc. has nothing at all to do with denying settler-colonialism in the US. You have literally no evidence of me denying the US Empire's settler-colonial nature, I regularly push for decolonization and landback, especially over on my Lemmy.ml account where there are far more bloodthirsty settlers.
You laser-focused on a strawman because you aren't interested in discussion, like you claim, but sowing division until you eventually get banned. Wrecker behavior.
If I was not interested in discussion, I would not be on a discussion board to begin with. That makes no sense.
This is largely a shitposting site. If you want discussion, post in the theory or politics comms, or the news comms. Further, you said this was to provoke discussion, but you accused me of being a patsoc unprovoked after I gave a thoughtful response. You're just a wrecker, and not even an entertaining one at that.
I am not your entertainment committee.
I'm opening the floor to the motion to elect this user and every member associated with his order of the "The Radiant Trail" [preliminary] ACP(M) to be elected to the official hexbear entertainment committee for a period of five years.
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It's quite humorous a Gorgonzola-ite is using wobbly emojis to try and insult the Stalinist admins
You're also not interested in discussion yet claim to be doing this to spark discussion, you've been on Hexbear for years but you also just joined, etc. etc. Is this dialectics? /s
Also, this is the meme community.
Everything is dialectics, so yes, my responses are dialectical. My words have dual meaning. I am new insofar as this is a new account, but I am senior here because I have been here on many other accounts.
So yes, I am new here.
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Other users have certainly felt it important to spark a struggle session surrounding Deng Xiaoping Theory, so you wouldn't be alone, but at the same time, this is wrecker behavior for a Left-Unity shitposting site. Claiming that you're here to spark discussion, and refusing to engage with discussion, isn't "dialectics," it's pedantry.
If you think I am such a troll and wrecker, you had best report me to moderation.
No need.
Yes you are
You disprove your point even as you make it, because you are ignoring most of what they put forward over and over again.
To be frank you're pontificating harder than the Spartacist League trot I met in L.A who sold me a newspaper while bickering and nitpicking over anything I said.